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Alexandr Radayev
Archive · Art · Education · Saint Petersburg
"I remember that in the private Tenishev studio run by Repin, a student turned up in our group who proved to be colour-blind
"I remember that in the private Tenishev studio run by Repin, a student turned up in our group who proved to be colour-blind. He drew well, but when he took up the brush, faces and objects acquired unnatural colours and shades under his hand. Repin did not know
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Profile portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat, oil painting in a wooden frame
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New Jerusalem Museum opens “Master Repin”, an exhibition on Ilya Repin as a teacher
“When looking over the work of his pupils he spoke for the most part abruptly, in short phrases: ‘The head is too small’, ‘The hand is drawn wrongly’... Why too small, why wrongly, Repin usually did not explain, but demanded that his pupils grasp it for themselves. Yet at times
Cinema · Books · Saint Petersburg
Kusturica on his plans to adapt Dostoevsky, Vodolazkin and Gogol for the screen
Emir Kusturica Plans a New Project Based on Two Works by Dostoevsky. Kusturica has said that he will shoot his next film in Saint Petersburg and Siberia. It is to be called “Crime Without Punishment”, a blend of “The Idiot” and “Crime and Punishment”. After Dostoevsky, Kusturica intends to set
Art · Mores · Ethnography
Protective caps on children in old paintings shielded heads from falls
Have you noticed the strange caps on children in old paintings? They are not strange caps at all, but protective contrivances meant to keep a child from cracking its head in a fall. The cap was stuffed with swan's down and wool, and most often fastened with ties.
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Head of Tutankhamun, c. 1336–1327 BC
Archive · Geography · Society · Paris · Nature
The 1910 Paris flood and the end of wooden block paving on the city's streets
The Paris flood of January–February 1910 was the worst since 1658. The Seine itself did not burst its banks, but the rise of the water in it and in its tributaries flooded most of the city through the sewers, drainage pipes and underground tunnels, the Metro included. Hundreds of
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The Death of Smaug, a Drawing by Tolkien Himself
The death of Smaug, a drawing by Tolkien himself. Incidentally, the film turned out rather similar.
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Head composed of fruit beneath a wicker basket, painting in an antique frame
NB! · Moscow · Museums
An Italian Potpourri at the Pushkin Museum
Art · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages
The Pushkin Museum's Italian Courtyard in Bloom
A very lively and life-affirming exhibition has opened: "Flowers, Fruit and Musical Instruments in Italian Baroque Painting"